I think a (the?) major one is that of providing riders with real-time information about closings, reroutings, etc., that was previously pretty hard to get without physically being present in a station.
And then there's me, watching the trains enter and exit the stations in real time. :-)
I got to love the city many decades ago, as a young software consultant. Oh, the smell of urine and the sight of graffiti on the trains and garbage in the streets! I still love it, but you're right, it is quite a different place. In some ways better; in others, worse.
At least singapore keeps it clean, despite my hatred for non-private transport. NYC does a great job of cramming humans into close proximity with literal bubonic plague rats
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 32.6 ms ] threadAnd then there's me, watching the trains enter and exit the stations in real time. :-)
Imagine funneling a volume of sardines through a similarly voluminous tube-- that's public transport in NYC
Hope you will enjoy the city "as it once was" many decades ago when the physical space was more adaquately portioned for the population!